gavioli 42 keys drawingroom organ /orgue de salon gavioli 42 touches

code number 31

This superb instrument is certainly not an average one !Its music scale is quite unusual, probably an expansion of a 35 keys and it also shows high class in the apparent simplicity of its case.Dont miss these significant details :* gold medals and lettering​* French "bourgeoisie" style with careful woodwork* very well preserved walnut finish* new fabric* nice bronze handles

Started in 1806 in Modena (Italy) the family business at first had moved to Paris in 1852, in an alive area of street sellers and little trades.By the very end of the XIXth century though, at the time our organ was built, Gavioli has become a growing well known company, able to move very close to the Place de la Nation, in an important avenue (de Taillebourg) newly openned by Haussmann's urban works.​Obviously the very name of the GAVIOLI Company, written in gold, was then this instrument 's best decoration and advertisement !

This instrument is very interesting as the representant of a rare state of transition between modest hand turned barrel 35 keys street organs of the beginnings and the huge 104 keys fairground organs that will make Gavioli so famous.Its size still permitted to a simple organ grinder to provide popular dances, while the musical possibilities of its 42 keys was also allowing a better educated public to enjoy by example medleys of the latest operas...

It is for its remarkable musicality that Gavioli received the highest awards and TEN GOLDEN MEDALS at the Paris Universal Exhibits of 1867, 1878 and 1889, as shown by the two golden medals top of this organ !